TO THE ONE WHO WAITS
ARTURO GIOVANNITTI
1914

No! Whether a sob or a song,
While love shall life's battles endure,
While you in my will shall be strong And I in your faith shall be pure,
While both have to weep, but our soul Knows not what is doubt or despair,
While happiness be not our goal, But simply the way to get there;
While after each loss we are trying Again, though we never achieve.
And, mocked at and wounded and dying, We still shall persist and believe.
While after each stormy nightfall More radiant each sunrise will seem,
And while, after having lost all.
Remain you and I and the Dream —
Even though all the world shall adverse us, Though all our destruction acclaim,
And priests in God's name shall accurse us, And fools in humanity's name;
Though all our old comrades we lose. And each of our friends turn a knave.
And some pull the hangman's red noose, And all help to dig us a grave,
Still this unto you will I tell,
That no man, no scaffold, no jail,
No powers of heaven and hell Against you and me shall prevail!

#IWW #Wobbly #LaborHistory

Hi!
Perhaps a Re-#Introduction is in order since there's so many more people in this space to share stories and insights with.

I'm an #Alchemist. I manipulate symbols and materials to effect #transformations and thus transform myself.
My practice was revealed to me in a series of trances by an ancient #goddess who has many historical forms. Some of these are the #Kemetic goddesses known as the Eyes of Ra. She recently revealed to me that she would like me to refer to her as #Hathor. I'm not second guessing that advice.

I'm a cis het old guy (58) happy married for 25 years. I adore women. Mostly from afar.

Race- white, blue eyed ethnic jew.

My technique is centered on an apparatus I built based on a design the goddess revealed. I later connected the components and operation symbolically to equipment and processes described in classic #Alchemy sources.
I'm a non-traditional Alchemist. I don't use a forge or do metallurgy. My device is electrical and uses a type of #crystal to focus energy. It can roughly be described as a type of lamp. The picture shows the output of my process. It's called a #Violograph.

It is commonly asserted, and I agree, that the coveted philosopher's stone refers to the practitioners themselves. As the goal of the process it is in reality the transformed person.
This is done by separating the spirit and soul from the #body, changing them and then re-uniting them in the body again. Carl #Jung has some interesting ideas on this.

Politically- #anarchosyndicalist and card carrying #Wobbly. I’ve been working at the same factory for 28 years.

Other areas of interest besides the #occult are listed below.

Music-
I write songs, play electric #bass and #ukulele. Not famous at all.
A few faves-
#Motorhead
#HankWilliams
#CarolinaChocolateDrops
#Budgie
#JudasPriest
#JohnnyWinter
#BuddyGuy
#HotTuna
#WilliamElliotWhitmore
#JackBruce

Art-
#GustavKlimt
#JackKirby
#FrankFrazetta
#ErnstFuchs
#GilbertShelton
 
Philosophy:
#Plotinus
#HerbertSpencer (I know- cringe)
#MaxStirner
#Hegel
#Heraclitus
#Iamblichus
 
Food: #glutenfree, I'll take what I can get. Non-celiac.

Drink- #pinotgrigio wine spritzers mostly.
A pinch of #weed goes a looooonnnng way. After 45 years of smoking I'm a total lightweight now that it's legal here. That's #Chicago (officially a suburb 10 miles outside city limits), btw.

Everyone I’ve met here is awesome!
Peace and Solidarity!

#findfriends

#introductionpost

Hello everyone,

I'm new to the fediverse so please bear with me. My name is Elise and I'm a 40 years young transgender woman from rural Canada.

The environment I grew in was pretty oppressive for anyone queer and racism has always been rampant here. I was raised evangelical mennonite, but was into reading about science, history and philosophy. Needless to say I questioned everything from an early age and eventually abandoned the church in spite of having a natural aptitude for ministry.

I spent my childhood bottling up a lot of feelings as I wasn't in a safe place to come out. The church was overtly homophobic and schooling rampant with bullying. It took me awhile to get to a place where I could find adequate healthcare and resources to transition. In spite of Canada being one of the safest countries in the world for trans folks there's not enough resources for transgender people and back in the 00's it was almost impossible to access proper care.

In the interim I did my best to pursue an education all while battling severe depression, gender dysphoria, CPTSD, ADHD and multiple eating disorders. I hold bachelor's degrees in Arts and Social Work. Though I have had many barriers to employment early in my transition I still value my education and apply it to my current work as a bookseller. My political beliefs are rooted in anti oppressive work, prison abolition, trade unionism and I identify as anarcho syndicalist. My idols include Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, Leonard Pelletier and Amy Goodman. They helped shape my political views along with my old web haunts raisethefist.org, unamerican.com, infoshop.org and alternet.

I'm in a better place now and managed to find healing and recovery through art. Spoken Word Poetry, dance, Burlesque and theater being my main outlets that helped lift me up from hitting rock bottom early in my transition. It is my hope is that future generations of transgender people need not suffer what I went through as a child and I fight like hell for the rights of my kin.

Hope to meet some more like minded folks here who are into politics, activism and weirdo performance art. Feel free to HMU if you're interested in chatting.

#anarchist
#anarchosyndicalist
#wobbly
#transgender
#transgenderartist
#girlslikeus
#transisbeautiful
#performanceartist
#spokenwordpoet
#CatFancier
#bookseller
#bookworm
#nerd
#roleplaying
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

I am just a boy here submitting my inaugural #introduction thingy.

Howdy!
Been an #illustrator & #tattooer for the last 20+ years, but always done did the #OSINT since well before it was called that to keep eyes on local RWE & BS debunking. (I babble on about that below).

Although I came up in the (traditional) skinhead scene, the #ARA & #IWW stuff always seemed to permeate much of my life & even the creative-y stuff.

Other than that…

• endured the `90’s in midtown #KCMO

• DJ’d a #reggae #ska #punk #oi! show on KKFI 90.1fm #skinheadmoonstomp
• ex-US Army (big truck fixer)

• lived in Germany but now in Canada

• pedantic BS debunker

• got a https://linktr.ee/artburn with a lil’ pile of art & merch stuff

• on Pixelfed now at @artburn@pixelfed.social

• T1diabetic #WeAreNotWaiting

• but most importantly #whiskey is nice

#introductions
#antifascist
#iww
#wobbly
#skinhead

...

"Las horas largas, el pago es mínimo

Asi que a huevonear ( ir despacio)

Que el jefe / capataz es un inútil

Y al carajo con "cultura de matarse por el trabajo "

IWW / #Wobbly #propagandaObrera

„Are Starbucks Workers Really Getting ,organized‘?“.
Über die Gewerkschaftswahlen in mehr und mehr #Starbucks-Filialen und warum „Unionizing“ und „Organizing“ meistens verschiedene Dinge sind. Von Mike H., einem #Wobbly aus dem Starbucks-Organizing der #IWW ab 2004 (EN).

“(...) Organizing” is essentially about building relationships with workers, while “unionizing” is about building a relationship with the employer.“

https://www.restaurantworkernews.org/newsletter/mikehoped